Alright, we have a little bit of interest in this, so I'll start it off.

Here's how the competition will work:

1) Play the game of the month in whatever format you choose, emulation or REAL DEAL. We can trust you're not cheating, hopefully. Once you have achieved a high score to your liking, post a picture of the score here... You can use a camera for your TI monitor, or feel free to take a screenshot in Classic99, MESS, whatever. Post scores as many times as you like, no limit.

2) At the end of the month, an award will be given to the high-score champion.

3) The winner of the contest must then select the game for the next month and offer up a prize to the winner. I will be keeping a record of all high score champions and will update the first post of this thread when a new champ is crowned. (Al, I'm going to need the ability to update the first post of this thread indefinitely please)

Notes:

*If you are the champion, you can definitely play and post scores for the game of your choosing, but you are not eligible to win your own prize.

*If your prize is PHYSICAL (not required) and you intend on paying all shipping charges, please indicate so in your post.

*Please post pictures of your offered prize if it is physical.

*The prize does not have to be valuable, but I would prefer if it were TI-related... Something as small as a dual cassette cable or a used Alpiner cartridge might be good prizes. Or, if you choose, offer up your GRAM Kracker and Killer Caterpillar cartridge.

*Competition ends at 11:59:59 EST on the last day of the calendar month

*Not required (but certainly acceptable): attach a zip of the game to your post or a link to where it can be downloaded.

When posting your game for the month (assuming you won the previous month) please follow the format below.

Oh, I took the liberty of blowing through a few levels of Munchman so that I could offer the first petty meager score to be bested. (*hint*--if you've never played this game before, the score I posted is childs-play... Use a good set of sticks and blow this one out of the water)

I hope you all have fun with this and that we build some steam with this competition!!

I dunno... I've spent a LOT of time trying to prove this or not, and I can't say for certain. Remember that real iron varies by up to 10%, and that's if it's still in spec (the CPU clock is allowed to drift +/- 5%, and I have consoles at both ends of that range ). Can you give me a benchmark I can actually use to prove this, then I can fix it?

I dunno... I've spent a LOT of time trying to prove this or not, and I can't say for certain. Remember that real iron varies by up to 10%, and that's if it's still in spec (the CPU clock is allowed to drift +/- 5%, and I have consoles at both ends of that range ). Can you give me a benchmark I can actually use to prove this, then I can fix it?

It is for sure faster (but I need to find a way to show it in parallel between the emulator and the real iron and probably on the same LCD-screen?

I am not too sure if that can impact the speed or also called "QoE - Quality of Experience"?)

P.S. Also found something fun, when using the Joy2Key (see other post) and leave it on Joystick in the emulator, then it slows down all movements

(like you mentioned), but then suddenly it goes fast forward (very fast, like in the movies "jumper" and the guy in "x men days of future past" who can move fast)

I guess it is catching up with the keystrokes, I need to see if I can capture this somehow, it is hilarious seeing Munch Man going at this speed !

My high so far using real hardware and a good old fashioned Atari CX-40 joystick. Playing just now, reminds me how much I hate the enemy patterns and the way some of them are animated. Way too damned jittery! lol